In which season do you feel your symptoms are worst?

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In Autumn/Fall I get much much worse. I feel afraid and skitish, feel vulnerable and exposed. I find it harder to sleep, harder to concentrate. All stimuli is magnified by at least five: visual, aural and touch. It's like when you look at your computer screen sometimes and it is so blindingly white you cannot bear it.

I'm interested to know whether certain seasons are worse for others and if they know why. I mean which season in your own hemisphere.

(This is not connected to my previous poll) -

[Poll]: Which season were you born in?
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In the summer my sensory issues are stronger because of the bright sunlight, so I even more stay inside. But other symptoms are not prone to season. In autumn and winter you are more prone to depressive symptoms, because of lacking sunlight and a vitamin-D-deficiency.

I have the hardest time with Summer, because all of my school routines end and I have months of unscheduled time.

Also the few friends I have leave the city for their respective hometowns and I'm alone.

Last summer was a disaster. This coming summer, I am going to try and find other ways to schedule my time well in advance of the season starting.

I'm going to take a guess and claim it's winter.

Winter's the season that startles people enough that they metaphorically or literally cuddle up together in the cold and try to be as social as always - with considerably less opportunities of activities supporting that socialisation as during those other seasons.

I find winter the hardest by far. I feel constantly agitated by my clothing and/or feeling cold. It is several months that I feel I really can't relax.

This is such an interesting question. I've pretty much linked the causes/levels of 'symptoms' to interactional situations (human situations). With the exception of a co-morbid (such as Seasonal Affective Disorder), I've not really seen coorelations between 'symptomology' and seasons. Ha! It's definitely something I'll be thinking about this weekend.

I usually feel happier in the autumn/winter. I love the weather. Something about cool weather makes me feel more alive. Maybe I just prefer cooler temperatures. I love autumn the most. I don't get snow where I live, but I've experienced it, and I wouldn't mind it every year. I rather like the way the world looks covered in white, and snowfall relaxes me. I feel so cozy at home during the winter.

Summer is the worst for me. It's sticky, hot, bright, and downright annoying. I do not like being sweaty. I also enjoy the outdoors, and during summer I don't go out much because it's just so unpleasant, and being stuck inside too much makes me feel depressed.

I didn't vote, because I don't think my Asperger's varies seasonally.

I do have a Clinical Depression, which is not your typical SAD, but runs on the same calendar. I have speculated that it might be because as a child I was overcrowded with other children in school, plus things got worse that way in December because of the weather and all of the holiday activities in the evening that I was expected to be at -- then with the long Christmas Vacation, all of that lightened up until spring/summer when I could be as much alone as I wanted. The day length might be an unconscious trigger for that, since I'd have associated the school year with day length. I know it isn't light level or spectrum, because I tried light boxes before I knew anything about Asperger's, and they didn't help enough to be noticeable, and I'm never deficient in Vitamin D, because I take supplements. Antidepressants do relieve that now, but it's been going on ever since I got close to adulthood, late teens.

I need a none or an all option in the poll.

Autumn, due to school picking back up. It goes from getting used to not having to interact or deal with large crowds, to 4,000 yelling, moving, socializing kids.

Mine are the worst in Autumn. The days get shorter and I have this strange feeling that makes feel worn down and almost like I can fall asleep, any time, anywhere.

Summer.

I voted summer, but its more complicated than that.

Summer is when I have most potential to be worst and best. It's the only season that I can reliably get in my kayak, which is when am "least autistic" of all times, yet the air is so full of pollutants, and the smells and worse and I feel even more separated from people and its usually the worst.

I can relate to that. I like to kayak also. Though where I live, anything outdoors = pure air, especially where there is water.

I should say that now I am older I have realised that all extremes agitate me. I just have always been so active (now I know that as being a result of constant adrenalin pumping) that I associated my extremes of action/depression as being no good with balance.

So cold makes me depressed and anti-social, heat agitates me and makes me angry and anti-social, dryness makes me extremely agitated and inconsolable. So Spring is divinity itself.

I feel worse in winter. For one thing, the shops are ten times more busy than normal (and normal is busy enough for my liking!), but I can't avoid shopping places because I have to go to a job-centre where I have to walk right through a really crowded shopping mall to get there, and the bus-station is so crowded aswell. This is all because of Christmas, then the sales are on in January.

Another thing I feel worse in winter because of the snow. Now, I only, for some strange reason, many Aspies here seem to like the cold, bleak, miserable time of the year with slippery pavements and kids having days off school and are running amok in the snow, and there are dangers on the roads and all your plans are disrupted, but I actually don't like all of that. I feel my Dyspraxia is worse too, because I tend to slip over more easier than most people, and I think my Social Phobia is worse too because I worry about slipping over due to unwanted attention (yes people laugh when others slip), and so I go all stiff as I walk over ice, and then I do slip then think everybody saw and are all laughing (it's irrational thoughts). I have an anxiety disorder, but this causes even more anxiety, and causes more outbursts. I have an outburst when the weatherman forecasts snow for the week. That's practically the only thing what sets me off.

I don't like the autumn either because I know I've got all this to come, but the autumn itself is OK. Spring and summer are the best - no weather anxieties at all! Just long, hot days where I can wear T-shirts and shorts and sandals and get all those lovely hunky men after me!

Summer, because it's the bad season around here. I hate the color of the light and how you can't do anything without feeling icky/sticky. I'm not particularly aware of how badly I've felt, however, until the first few cool days lift my mood.

When I lived in a more temperate climate the situation was reversed, and winter was the unhappy season.